#a large percentage of the prison population likely have it

[sophiamcdougall]

AARGH

So, I had an hour of psychoeducation about ADHD and ADD. I don’t have either (I’ve been tested, and I’m very inattentive but nothing else) but the group is mixed and has some people with ADHD in it. And obviously, an hour can only give a short introduction to the topic, and the therapist said so, but I’m still PISSED OFF.

Because when we talked about diagnoses and stuff, she said, repeatedly, that it was overdiagnosed, and it was me pointing out that it might be overdiagnosed IN BOYS but it’s definitely underdiagnosed in girls and women that got her to correct what she was saying. Btw, the group consisted, if I remember correctly, of two men, one nb person, and about 8-9 women.

Then we came to collecting ideas about what can help dealing with ADHD. I read @thebibliosphere, so I had some ideas, but apparently removing the doors to your kitchen cabinets is “a bit extreme”. And the most important is “planning and organizing”. Now I’m not an expert, but I believe that if they were able to plan and organize, they wouldn’t have ADHD.

Anyway, I’m fine, I’m just pissed off on other people’s behalf. But I’m kinda concerned for the people in this program who do have ADHD.

[haggishlyhagging]

In recent years, the female crime wave and its violent women have been alarmingly described in articles and books; but they were first widely publicized in 1975 through a book called Sisters in Crime by Freda Adler, a criminologist who rose to prominence on the strength of a logical fallacy. Noticing that a renewed women's movement paralleled apparently phenomenal increases in crimes by women, Adler mistakenly concluded that one trend caused the other. The rapid rise in crimes by women, she said, was merely the "shady aspect of liberation"; and as more and more "libbers" rushed to emulate the criminal example of men—the only "full human beings"—we would be awash in a sea of emancipated crime.

While some prisons planned new facilities for the expected influx of violent women, feminists in criminology and the criminal-justice system were quick to respond to Adler with convincing arguments. They maintained, and rightly, that Adler's figures were misleading precisely because women commit so few crimes. When the number of crimes is small, only a few more may account for a large percentage increase; but Adler cited those alarming percentage increases without recording the low absolute numbers. She pointed to a shocking rise of 277 percent in arrests of women for robbery between 1960 and 1972; but the 1973 Uniform Crime Reports of the FBI reported only 5,700 women arrested for robbery that year, compared with almost 95,000 men. Across the board women were arrested in 1973 for about 15.3 percent of all crimes committed—not a high rate, and certainly not an alarming one, for a group that makes up more than half the population. Adler's critics also noted that there has been no demonstrable increase in crimes of violence committed by women. The greatest increases in women's crimes have been in larceny and fraud, particularly welfare fraud; and these are not violent crimes but economic ones, easily attributable to the growing financial needs of poor women, most of whom have children to support. Other critics pointed to evidence that spreading drug addiction has increased economic crimes for women and men alike. In any case, the so-called new woman criminal was likely to be like the old woman criminal—young, poor, and black or Hispanic.

Adler was quite right that the two phenomena—the women's movement and female criminality—go together, but not as she supposed in terms of cause and effect. It is simply that the presence of one prompts fear of the other. Agitation for women's rights always sparks enormous anxiety, among women and men alike, about the proper place of women in society, and because "take" in one element of society seems to mean "give" in another, about the safety of the whole social order. That anxiety manifests itself in many ways: in the fear that women are "unsexing themselves," which in turn produces campaigns to outlaw bloomers, to elevate a regressive “femininity” to "total womanhood," and to make abortion a criminal offense; in the fear that the family is disintegrating, which results in virulent attacks upon women's colleges, divorce, homosexuality, women in the work force, federally funded day care, and unisex bathrooms; and in the fear that women, released from some traditional restraints, will turn to unbridled evil, mayhem, and murder. Even the traditionally macho skin magazine Oui observed in 1975, “Women criminals today seem to spark a special fear, fantasy and overreaction in male society.”

-Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

[madjackbrock]

“I will consider sparing the poet behind it.”

“Briefly, at least.”

In hindsight, I suppose it’s not surprising a God’s body would adapt to such efficient measures. As what is the storage of fat but the efficiency of energy-use and conservation?

At some point, His godly fat cells stopped needing the digestive process, when it came to a certain percentage of the consumed human population, any how. Not that He could classify us as such. It was clear there were only two categories left from His perspective: Himself and food. And we were NOT Him…. yet.

But the adipose cells could sense us, perhaps detecting the DNA we share, inferior as ours might be. They seemed to summon us directly through the blood stream.

I’m not sure what made us special. What about us pleased His body to adopt such a process. Perhaps it was random chance? Perhaps it was more? Either way, here we found ourselves, before a growing army of round yellow spheres pulling into themselves every glucose and vitamin atom within their reach. And we soon discovered we were no different; Helplessly relegated to nothing more than little nutrients to be absorbed.

The literal balls of fat moved quickly once we were within reach. At the time they were only a little bigger than us, but that was plenty large enough, it turns out.

They drag you in with some kind of suction. Or perhaps magnetism. An inescapable pull similar to that a riptide or undertow. And once you touch their surface, they pull you in for a sort of hug. The soft, warm water-bed like consistency of the membrane embraces you almost affectionately, squeezing tighter and tighter until, with a sort of pop, you find yourself on the inside of the fat cell. Surrounded by a translucent, yellow, pillowy gel. And what was a soft membrane wall on the outside is more like a wall of tough tire-rubber on the inside.

No amount of pounding, clawing or scratching was going to penetrate the walls of our new prisons. It became pretty clear, pretty fast that these cells followed the same dogmatic rule observed by the planetary-like specimen they made up as a whole: Consumption is a one way process.

What started out as somewhat tight quarters didn’t remain that way for long, as the surrounding walls of the cell slowly began to pull away in all directions. I still can’t fathom the amount of matter, nor the rate it must be consumed, for adipose tissue to expand at such a visibly notable rate. And it was clearly accelerating.

I didn’t have to guess what was happening. I knew. Larger hands were stuffing a bigger maw, that lead down a wider throat, and into what science can only classify as a new type of black hole.

At first the fat cell was a solitary prison. But as it widened it began pull in more specimens. First one. Then a few. And then many. Through the clear membrane I could watch the process unfold in adjacent cells. Watch as little people are helplessly jostled around in them, like confetti in a water balloon.

And as each cell got too full it would divide, creating a new equally large, equally hungry adipose cell. The God wasn’t just growing larger, He was growing fatter. By A LOT. And as the army of adipose cells grew, in both number and size, they became equally ravenous and aggressive. Most likely mirroring the God’s mounting greed. A feeding lust expressed intensely right down to His cellular level.

Even now it’s hard to grasp: a being so powerful that a single fat cell could effortlessly dominate hundreds of people. Soon perhaps cities of people. Even as I watch it unfold, it feels so unreal. So impossible. But it’s still much more pleasant of a thought than the one I’m actively trying to keep shut out of my mind.

You see, we’re here for a reason. And it isn’t that we’re being spared. We aren’t here to be closer to the Divine, or learn the anatomical workings of a God, like some twisted episode of The Magic fucking School Bus.

No. We’re here simply as storage. Convenient calories set aside for the leaner times to come. After all, there’s only so much raw matter drifting around in our galaxy. And as God sucks the last cosmic crumbs from His chubby fingers, it will finally be our turn.

God’s adipose cells will get to work, slowly breaking us down to our raw components to help fuel the only goal left in the universe that matters: His infinite growth.

It’s just science, people.

[beardedmrbean]

For the sixth time in almost as many months, the country’s prison population has reached an all-time high. And for the first time ever, the number of people behind bars exceeded the 74,000 mark on July 1, according to statistics published by the justice ministry at the end of last month.  

There are now 74,513 people incarcerated in a country with a prison capacity of 60,666. That is 2,446 more than last year and drastically more than at the start of summer 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic led to a drastic fall in the number of inmates.  

Occupancy rates have surged in some areas, reaching a staggering 212 percent in the Perpignan prison in the south of France, for example. Now that a new wave of sentences has been handed out following a week of riots in response to the fatal shooting of Nahel M. at the hands of police on June 27, those percentages are set to balloon. 

Tougher justice system means more inmates

Overcrowding in prisons is a recurring debate, both in France and in Europe at large. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly criticised France for its “structural problem” regarding occupancy, underlining the “degrading conditions” that come with over-packing jails. 

Some French politicians have justified the record-breaking numbers by saying the overcrowding is proof that the French justice system is simply rigorous. In other words, it’s proof that things are working. But Dominique Simonnot, who heads an independent public watchdog group that monitors incarceration in France, says nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it may be part of the problem. 

According to Simonnot as well as the International Prison Observatory, among the factors leading to prison overpopulation is the steady increase in immediate hearings, a fast-track procedure that allows a prosecutor to bring a person to trial soon after being taken into custody. More of these immediate hearings mean more people can be sentenced in a shorter amount of time, funneling people into prison at a faster rate. Simmonot says that, 90 percent of the time, the outcome of these fast-track hearings is detention, whether pre-trial or to serve out a sentence.

“The defendant is sent straight into prison or detained on remand,” says Simonnot. “So more immediate hearings mean more incarcerated people.”  

Then there are the political factors. Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti, reacting to accusations the French justice system is not strict enough, has consistently called for a “firm” and “rapid” response to crime. As a result, penalties are becoming tougher and sentences are being extended. Penalties for squatting were tripled on July 27, for example, and now squatters risk up to three years in prison and a €45,000 fine whereas before they only faced one year in prison and a €15,000 fine.  

“People are spending more time in prison, and fewer people are being released,” says Simonnot.  

The issue seems to have reached a deadlock in France politically, despite demands from prison authorities across the country to bring down the soaring population. “There is a fixation on corporal punishment,” says Simonnot, saying some of the challenges are rooted in the culture that surrounds the French justice system. “[The debate] quickly turns into the good guys versus the bad guys; people are quick to think that I am on the side of thugs,” she sighs. 

Moreover, she points out, the way people are treated while incarcerated can have a significant effect on recidivism.

“[It feels like] nobody really cares, which is a huge mistake, because the way people are kept behind bars and how they spend their time will inevitably affect how they behave once they’re out.”  

‘Everyone is on edge’ 

The consequences of prison overcrowding are difficult for inmates across the board. Even female prisoners, who only represent 3.3 percent of France’s prison population, are living in overcrowded, under-equipped spaces.  

“It’s a disgrace,” says Simonnot, who has seen incarcerated women using overturned cupboards as bedframes.

These living conditions can no longer be considered humane due to the lack of space, says Simonnot. “Three inmates can be piled in a cell, and then all that is left for them to move around in is four metres squared, not counting the other amenities in their cell like the bed or toilet,” says Simonnot. “That’s around one metre squared per person to live in, and they spend 20 to 21 hours a day confined to that space.” 

Packed prisons have forced 2,478 inmates to sleep on mattresses on the ground, according to justice ministry figures released at the same time as the study of prison populations. Besides the constraints this puts on cell space, it’s a health hazard. At the Toulouse-Seysses prison in southwest France, Simonnot recounts seeing prisoners put toilet paper in their noses and ears “so cockroaches don’t crawl in while they sleep”.  

Unsanitary conditions from overcrowding in general can increase the risk of vermin and the spread of disease, posing serious health risks to the entire prison population. At a prison in Perpignan, Simonnot was told by supervisors to remove all her clothing before stepping into her house and to place her belongings in a freezer for 72 hours to kill off bedbugs and fleas.

“Whenever I visit a new facility, I think I’ve seen what rock bottom looks like,” she laments. “But it gets worse every time.”

The dire conditions and overcrowding have also had a knock-on effect on supervisors, who repeatedly express a sense of desperation. Hired to oversee around 50 inmates, they end up looking after “120 or even 150” in some pre-trial detention facilities, Simonnot explains. This inevitably leads to rising tensions and fosters a culture of violence. “To be a supervisor in a remand prison today you have to be Batman,” she says.   

“Everyone is on edge, they’re at their wits’ end.” 

And the 74,513 people incarcerated in France’s facilities doesn’t come without a cost to the state. An average day of detention costs €105. “That’s the price of a nice hotel room,” Simonnot says, before adding that “no hotel would host a guest in these conditions”.  

‘Fewer people behind bars’ 

For President Emmanuel Macron’s government, the best way to combat overcrowding in prisons is simply to build more. On July 18, a bill introduced by Justice Minister Dupond-Moretti to increase prisoner capacity with 15,000 new place was passed. But not all members of the French parliament believe this to be the best solution. And neither does the International Prison Observatory, which condemned the bill in a press release entitled, “The more we construct, the more people we lock up.” 

“It’s an announcement, that’s all,” says Simonnot, who is skeptical of the bill. “It’s a promise that has been made in the past and I don’t think it will be acted upon,” she says, drawing inspiration from a damning report published by Les Républicains MP Patrick Hetzel on May 25. The report outlined the government’s recurrent inaction on the construction of new cells to increase capacity, accusing them of “inexorable procrastination”.  

But there does seem to be consensus on one potential solution. On July 19, a report published by the lower-house National Assembly highlighted the “urgent need” to introduce a regulatory mechanism enshrined in French law that could relieve the country’s overflowing prison population. It’s an idea both Simonnot and the prison observatory have encouraged.  

The measure would first establish a critical threshold for a facility’s maximum capacity, beyond which the prison would no longer be allowed to longer function. That threshold “shouldn’t reach numbers we see today”, Simonnot says, and would be agreed upon collaboratively “by prison directors, judges, reinsertion services, jurisdictions, etc.”.

Prisons would be encouraged to release inmates reaching the end of their sentence in a “supervised, monitored and controlled” manner. And lastly, the inflow of incarcerated people would be curbed by decreasing the number of immediate hearings. 

“I think we just need to put fewer people behind bars,” Simonnot says. She is an advocate for sentences that avoid incarceration, like in Germany or the Netherlands, where detention is used less frequently and for shorter periods of time. Both countries rely heavily on fines or other community-based sentences, maintain a focus on rehabilitation and re-socialisation, and make life in prison as similar as possible to life in the community.

“Prisoners learn how to live again. It’s a gateway to freedom,” she says.  

Though alternative solutions exist, France is not looking to them for the foreseeable future. Following the riots that erupted after the police killing of young Nahel, a total of 1,278 sentences were handed out and 95 percent of those sentenced were convicted, according to numbers offered by Dupond-Moretti in a recent interview with French radio RTL.  

The prison observatory has also warned that the run-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics could worsen overcrowding. Authorities have set themselves a “zero crime” target for all areas hosting the Games, with a focus on street crime like illegal occupation of public spaces, street vending and minor drug-dealing offences. 

“It’s going to get worse,” Simonnot predicts. “That is what is so appalling.”  

[glowyjellyfish]

Wouldn’t it be great to stick with one Sims 2 game or idea until I see it through? That would be fun I think.

…anyway, I randomly looked at the Test of Time rules, and my rusty old anthropology minor ass immediately went EARLY SOCIETIES DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT.

I mean, I am not going to complain to the person who made the rules, it’s a fun concept and clearly a fairly popular challenge, and I am sure the rule-maker is a lovely person. But why do you think tribal societies shouldn’t communicate oh my god. Tribal societies are nothing but community. Let your ancient couples talk to other people! That’s how you get chiefs, it’s a guy with the most friends and influence! And omg you can’t go straight from hunter-gatherers to Ancient Rome what. Give them a chiefdom period first!

Anyway, I am pretty sure I had these same thoughts before, several years ago, because I already had a whole bunch of my own rules written out. Many of those rules are bad and need to be changed, and I want to incorporate the full sun&moon collection like I often do. Not that I can play this anytime soon—I would need to set up an Ancient downloads folder and I don’t think I have either the drive space or the wherewithal to start yet again. Ideally, someday I’ll have downloads folders for Ancient & Classical, Medieval & Renaissance, Enlightenment & Regency, Victorian & Edwardian (plus Steampunk and Old West), Vintage (ie roughly 20s-70s, plus a bit of Fallout style), and Modern (roughly 80s-present), and then move any Through Time neighborhoods between downloads folders, but that day is not today.

So the basics of what I want my own, more accurate rules to be would involve:

-Transitioning between eras is dependent on events and thresholds, not time passing (because I prefer proportionate aging but it would take FOREVER)

-Eras will be Hunter/Gatherer, Chiefdom, Classical, Dark Ages, Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Victorian, Vintage, Modern. Roughly. Might rename them.

-Hunter/Gatherer involves communal living, men going on hunting trips while women gather, and influence gained from relationships and hunting skill. Transitions based on needing agriculture to feed everyone; haven’t figured it out yet

-chiefdom has a ruling family and a few influential roles. The Chief collects extra resources and can use them to build public works. Farming and herding are now common, and sims trade with one another rather than simply sharing. Artisan trades begin. Organized religion begins. Bloodlines are organized into clans, and jostling for a better position is frequent; sims have influence based on their families, but it’s all very fluid at this point. Raids are executed to increase wealth and power. A few careers become available. Transitions based on defense maybe?

-classical starts full-fledged social classes with taxes and everything, and many careers are available (though not for all sims). The ruler is more absolute, and demands military service to fuel campaigns that bring in wealth and slaves. Slavery is a thing, prisoners of war brought home as part of the spoils. Periodically, such as once per season, barbarians try attacking; once you reach a certain threshold of number of slaves and wealth, your decadence is your downfall and the barbarians invade successfully. This wipes out a large percentage of your population and installs CAS Barbarian men in new positions of power; while slaves assisted your downfall and may find themselves better or worse off than before.

-the dark ages is how your society recovers after the Barbarian invasion. You can choose one member of each bloodline to protect, but everyone else had a good chance of dying. If your ruler had a daughter or female relative, the lead Barbarian forcibly married her to lend legitimacy to his takeover, and the new king offers positions of power to his followers and to your citizens that suck up to him. Transitions based on stabilization and the church.

-the medieval era plays very much like a MCC, with the focus on reestablishing the dominance of your society and figuring out your culture in the wake of the invasion. Transitions based on college and the printing press.

-the Renaissance allows more education and opportunities for the creatively talented, and features apprenticeship. It’s also the age of exploration; there will be lots of ship rules in play, and I’ll have a mechanic for discovering the New World. You then add a subhood representing it, with a second Through Time community placed there. You can either start them at the beginning, or roll to start them in any of the previous eras. However, your original society will want to colonize the New World, and transitions when you succeed.

-the Enlightenment involves colonization and overthrowing kings

…and that’s about as far as I got. Some of these sections I have more details for, others are just as vague as this rough outline. You’d think I could just start making the colonial-start through time BACC I came up with a couple months ago, but no.

[superbdragoncollection-stuff]

A criminal should not get their vote taken away because 99% of the time their crimes have nothing to do with the law or treason. Also, if they are such a big voting base, as it is claimed, that they can alter the balance of entire elections... that says more about society than it does about them, doesn't it? Or worse, shows that certain folks have a vested interest in keeping them without votes. The easiest way to control an election is to keep people voting in the first place. This is a main reason why felons have their vote taken away. By the way, a disproportionately large percentage of the prison population is black, and certain parties already do their best to make it hard for people of color of all races to vote. Seems like there might be another motivation here.

here's a scenario. Why should a convicted felon who loves democracy yet committed computer fraud(felony unrelated to federal law) get their vote taken away, while an actual no kidding fascist or monarchist who believes democracy is a *mistake* and should be destroyed at all costs, but has committed no violent crime, be allowed to keep his vote? Why should someone who stole a car have their first amendment rights taken away, while someone who is against the very concept of the first amendment be allowed to keep theirs?

The first amendment is one of our most important rights, and taking that right away from criminals violates it. This is not an endorsement of criminal activity, this is the point that if you believe crime fits the punishment, then felonies should not have your vote taken away. 99% of crime have nothing to do with the voting system!

[thegreatresettheory]

How will it work?

We believe that if 80% of the population stands against the government, that the government cannot continue to exist without resorting to violence. If we can get that percentage of people to specifically say "We want the Great Reset," that the government must then surrender, ideally completely without violence. Its' last action would be to organize the democratic vote that the Great Reset actually is.

Every legal resident of the country, including prisoners in jail and non-citizens residing legally under the previous laws, are automatically considered citizens of the new country. All laws under the previous government are dissolved.

The first priority is to assemble small groups, such as family or close friends, where each group elects a single representative. Then these groups combine together to create a neighborhood which elects a single representative, the neighborhoods combine into a town, and elect a single representative.

These groups can be as small as a single person or as large as a city, if you feel like your groups' representatives don't represent you, you can form a group of one and elect yourself. Each representative goes to the Reset vote location.

The vote itself occurs in a democratic function. Each representative may call for any number of laws to be considered by the group as a whole, and given a make their appeal. Laws require a different level of agreement to pass.

Laws that limit the power of the government would require the smallest levels of support, and laws the expand the power of the government require the highest.

I don't yet have the numbers nailed down but my instinct is that if 5% of the population want a protection, they get it. Think Bill of Rights type of situation. If 95% of people can agree to override that protection, then it gets unwritten or given restrictions according to the vote of the representatives.

The government set up will definitionally represent the people who set it because we will have, each and every person, gotten our say in how the government functions.

[the-firebird69]

With regards to the numbers of people evacuating Florida it is going to be fairly hefty but the Mac morlocks are back to about 15% or less and they are evacuating three to four percent today roughly and it will increase towards the end of the day as they cannot stand it anymore. The minority morlocks came in and have decided to leave about 10 to 20% of them that's how he came in and that's out of Florida's population no that's out of their percentage that came in I think by the end of the day it'll be 50% which is all the ones that came in plus about 10%? They cannot stand it here anymore also with this evacuation please note that this place is getting thin of morelock and the morlock know it. It's getting very thin as a matter of fact and there's not going to be many of them here by the end of the night tomorrow morning we suspect possibly 8% and maybe less maybe more but it's going to be around there it's very low and the minority morlock will begin evacuate tomorrow more so and these people will try to leave with them it might increase leaving only around 5% or 4% by the end of the day

-attrition rate is now at 0.7% that's correct almost a percent and that's what it is this hour of the warlock that's very high. However large some of that is investigation into Giants and the Giants are wasting no time at completely erasing them there's a few other things and it's kju too

-we have a moment to say it's very difficult doing what he's doing and we commend him for it and he thanks for you please do it as much as you can as much as he can. Good we have another assignment additional coming up later it's not a huge one and it has to do with Port Charlotte

-there's another group of people that really need out is this canceled organization only people prisoner and nary admitting it. They're very brazen and outspoken and rude today. Dressed up like women gross so we are going to stop them

We're going to publish because the above is huge

Thor Freya

Olympus

[oh-okay-kay]

papers / claims by terfs to look out for

from my experience, they bring up the same 'evidence' and papers constantly, and it is always faulty.

"autogynephilia"

ray blanchard coined the term autogynephilia. he once worked with WPATH, the worlds largest health org for transgender folks. his findings were rejected by the WPATH due to its lack of empirical evidence. he has also written for 4thwavenow, a known anti-trans cite, supporting the idea of 'rapid onset gender dysphoria'. still, terfs often send papers by him or, the biggest proponent of his views, anne a lawrence. none of the terms or claims they make have been accepted by major health orgs

"40%-60% of trans women in prison are in so for SA"

this was a claim made by another anti-trans group 'fair play for women' based on a report by the uk's ministry of justice. naturally, what they dont reveal are the real numbers. in reality, in 2017, the amount of trans folks from uk and wales in prison with *long* sentences was around 125. the numbers do not account for those who did not reveal they were transgender, or those who had shorter sentences. 125, out of the hundreds of thousands of trans folks that exist in just those countries. out of that 125, 60 trans folks were incarcerated for SA, and their genders themselves were not revealed. 125, out of the over 80,000 total inmate population for the uk in 2017. in short, this is a percentage used only to fear monger, and does not prove in any way any correlation between being trans and committing SA

"gender affirming surgery is experimental and dangerous"

the regret rate for GA surgery is less than 1%. compare this to the average regret rate across all surgeries is around 14%. GA surgery is life saving, and *works*

"according to statistics, men commit more crimes and are therefore more dangerous"

this is just, simply, a claim that has been used against folks since the dawn of time to justify hating an entire group. do not listen to anyone, not just terfs, who makes the format claim of "( ) are most likely to do ( ), which is why we should be separated / they should be punished"

"gender isnt real. only sex is"

well, it is complicated. in physiology, its been found there are as many observable gender forms in humans as the number of humans itself. gender *does exist* to a certain extent, but the lines we draw defining which gender means/does what is constructed by society. however, terfs believe that gender is fake, that only sex is real, aka that we are either large or small gamete producer. they do not take into account that we *do not have xray vision*, and therefore do not distinguish ourselves by our sex, but by our behaviours and expressions and interactions, our genders

if i think of anything more, ill try to add. these are just some of the things i have seen a *lot* of terfs say

It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".

TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.

Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.

I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.

If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.

As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.

When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.

[prelawland]

Restore the Vote Act Law to the Minnesota Supreme Court

By Emma Mehl, Student at University of Northwestern - St. Paul

January 20, 2024

In the state of Minnesota, the percentage of the population able to vote has greatly increased in the past year. This is not due to a large number of citizens registering to vote, but due to the Restore the Vote initiative which was signed by Governor Tim Walz in March of 2023. This initiative will allow those who have felony convictions to vote in the elections they are not incarcerated for.[1]The previous standard involved required probation after incarceration before the ability to vote was restored. The number of those who have their voting rights restored as a result of this bill are over 50,000.[2]

House File 28 passed in the House, Senate, and was signed by Governor Tim Walz last March. However, it has faced backlash from the Minnesota Voters Alliance. The Alliance brought their concerns to Anoka County District Judge Thomas Lehmann through a lawsuit filed last June.[3] Minnesota Voters Alliance President Andy Cilek argues that those who have not completed their sentence fully have not earned back the right to vote.[4] This argument is due to the wording of the bill that allows those who are not currently incarcerated to vote. The Alliance believes that those on work release, probation, or supervised release have not fully completed their sentence and by the Minnesota Constitution are not able to participate in the electoral process. Those in favor of the bill believe that it will provide a restoration of rights to over 50,000 Minnesotans, many of whom are people of color.

In December, Judge Thomas Lehmann dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Voters Alliance. The reason Lehmann states, is that the argument of the lawsuit is fundamentally flawed. Quoted from Article VII, section 1 of the Minnesota Constitution, Lehmann wrote that the framers used intentional writing by stating “restored to civil rights”.[5] In his interpretation, Lehmann believes that it does not say “restored to all civil rights” intentionally. Therefore, by this logic, the legislature is following the correct constitutional process to restore voting rights.

After Judge Thomas Lehmann’s dismissal of the lawsuit, the Minnesota supreme court has decided to hear the challenge to the law. The Minnesota Voters Alliance filed a petition for an accelerated review, which the Supreme Court accepted. This accelerated review allows the case to be heard by the Supreme Court instead of waiting for the Minnesota Court of Appeals due to the timeliness of this decision in an election year. Oral arguments are set to begin on April 1.

Minnesota is not the only state looking to restore voting rights to people convicted of a felony. States such as Maine, Vermont, and the District of Columbia allow those currently incarcerated to vote, whereas states like Nevada and Colorado allow citizens to vote after their release from prison.[6] As states continue to discuss this important issue, voter rights as stated in the Constitution will have to be examined to ensure that each citizen is granted their rights.

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[1]https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF28&type=ue&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0

[2] https://www.kare11.com/article/news/politics/minnesota-senate-approves-restoring-voting-rights-for-felons/89-bb28ea5f-05db-4dd3-a22a-858eac81f144

[3] https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/group-files-lawsuit-seeking-to-reverse-minnesota-law-that-restores-voting-rights-to-some-felons/

[4] KSTP

[5] https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/judge-dismisses-challenge-to-minnesota-law-that-allows-some-felons-to-vote/

[6] https://www.findlaw.com/voting/my-voting-guide/felon-voting-laws-by-state.html

[xtruss]

With its human-made beaches and recreational attractions, Sentosa Island (foreground) is a popular getaway in Singapore. Photograph By Ronan O'Connell

How a Brutal POW Camp Became an Idyllic Island Paradise

In Singapore, a new trail and national monument explore Sentosa Island’s past as a pirate haven and military complex—well before it became a popular family getaway.

— By Ronan O'Connell | March 24, 2023

Each day tourists ride cable cars over Singapore’s Keppel Harbour to a luxurious holiday isle haunted by death. In the world’s third most densely populated country, Sentosa Island is a popular getaway, thanks to its sandy beaches, majestic rainforest, lavish resorts, and theme parks. (And it was a setting in author Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians.) But lurking behind that idyllic veneer are startling tales of torture, plunder, and deadly epidemics.

Sentosa was known for savage pirates and a brutal prisoner of war camp before the Singapore government converted it into an upmarket vacation destination in the 1970s. Now 10 million people a year visit this island, which is less than a mile from the mainland and connected by rail and cable car.

Singapore could have buried Sentosa’s disturbing past beneath its cheerful present. Instead its government recently declared the 19th-century Fort Siloso a national monument and is creating fresh tourism programs that embrace its bleak history.

The Sentosa Express monorail line connects Harbour Front on Singapore’s mainland to Sentosa Island. Photograph By Sergi Reboredo, VWPICS/Redux

The resort getaway of Sentosa Island includes attractions such as beaches, a skywalk, a waterpark, and shows, such as the martial arts event shown here. Photograph By Charles Pertwee, The New York Times/Redux

Pirate Haven

Prior to being renamed Sentosa 50 years ago, this 1,200-acre island had an eerie moniker. It was called Pulau Blakang Mati, which means “the island behind which lies death.” That name could be linked to sea nomads who once lived on Singapore’s Brani Island and may have buried their dead on adjacent Sentosa, explains Kwa Chong Guan, adjunct associate professor of history at the National University of Singapore.

Sentosa’s lethal reputation was burnished by pirates and an invisible enemy. In the first half of the 1800s, a mysterious epidemic killed a large percentage of the island’s population, which then included bands of buccaneers. Singapore’s waters brimmed with seafaring criminals long before it was settled by the British in 1819, says Stefan Eklöf Amirell, author of Pirates of Empire.

He says the Singapore Strait, which runs parallel to the nation’s south coast, had always been “excellent for piracy.” This was due to its heavy ship traffic and abundant ambush locations on small, forested islands like Sentosa. Even after the Brits arrived, pirate plunder persisted. “Singapore being a hub of free trade, arms trade, and easy recruitment of crews inadvertently encouraged piracy,” Amirell says of this early colonial period.

Tourists now walk in the footsteps of buccaneers at Fort Siloso. Before it was erected on the northern headland of Sentosa in 1878, this site was popular with pirates, says Goh Geok Yian, associate professor of history at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

Cannon barrels at Fort Siloso are among the artifacts from Sentosa Island’s military history. Photograph By KC Hunter, Alamy Stock Photo

To reach the British port at Keppel Harbour, merchant ships had to navigate the narrow strait between that headland and the mainland. “This [location] provided the perfect combination for mounting ambushes against ships,” Goh says.

From Fort To POW Camp To Resort

Siloso was among a cluster of British coastal forts built in the late 1800s to defend Singapore from threats such as the Russian navy, Goh explains. Siloso, the only one intact, now enjoys Singapore’s highest level of heritage protection as a new national monument.

To access this hilltop fort, visitors follow an elevated walkway through a forest canopy. The jungle rustles with macaques; brahminy kites soar above; and Singapore’s skyline unfurls to the east, with serene Siloso Beach to the south.

This display at Fort Siloso on Sentosa Island depicts soldiers in a battery command post looking for enemy infiltration. Photograph Via Alamy

In another Fort Siloso display, British soldiers are depicted transporting and loading ammunition in a bunker. Photograph Via Alamy

This natural splendor soon gives way to hulking artillery and grim history. Visitors can inspect the fort’s anti-aircraft structures, command towers, machine gun posts, and sprawling network of bunkers, tunnels, and barracks. A small museum uses videos, photos, and maps to tell Siloso’s story.

The fort was designed to counter seaborne attacks from the south. But it was from the north that Siloso received its fiercest foe. In 1941, the Japanese invaded Singapore overland from Malaysia, and Siloso’s weaponry was shifted accordingly. That had little impact. Singapore fell in 1942 and the Japanese turned this fort into a prisoner of war camp for British and Australian troops.

These dark tales haunt the lantern-lit night tours of Siloso, launched in December. They are also woven into the new Sentosa Heritage Trail, a signposted route past 30 historic sites, including former army offices and hospitals, most of which are explained by interpretive signs. Amid the island’s golf courses and thrill rides, the trail charts Sentosa’s unlikely evolution from pirate port to combat complex to, finally, holiday haven.

[thurisazsalail]

i would like rehabilitation to not be in prisons. there are many ways to rehabilitate people that have nothing to do with MRE-like "meals" that I've seen people go to a hospital over. intestinal blockages from orient jail are not uncommon, and they are dangerous.

prison is not a deterrent. full-stop. they are a for-profit system in america. you WILL be put in prison, and if you haven't yet, good for you. when we don't have a law to break, we literally just MAKE them. my city made standing or sitting on one part of a public sidewalk for more than 10 minutes a jail-worthy crime. i am not kidding.

it only makes sense that the most dangerous habitual offenders, such as serial rapists and child predators, be kept in prisons. these are not people who can be rehabilitated, and if/when the small percentage of them can, they cannot be around other people going through regular rehab. they are a threat to those people. they are an immediate danger to other prisoners and to the general public- anyone they can access.

sure, try to rehab the pedophile or rapist.

but do it where they have 0 ability to access anyone's kid. not just "we have an ankle bracelet and told them to stay away from schools." don't let them have access to other prisoners. rape is about power, not sex. really fucked up people do not care where the power comes from.

*certain people* should 100% be in prison. the vast majority should not.

but i live in a country with one of the largest prison populations in the world, largely dominated by for-profit industries at every level.

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[luulapants]

things you should know about books and incarceration

I recently started working with a program that sends books to incarcerated people upon request. There are programs like this in many places throughout the US, under names like “Prison Books Project” or “Books to Prisoners.” Here’s some things you should know:

The most requested book, by far, is the English dictionary. The Spanish dictionary is also highly requested, as are GED prep materials, thesauruses, almanacs, and other reference books. If you have anything like that laying around unused, please consider donating.

Prisons are legally required to maintain libraries of legal resources (this falls under one’s right to counsel), but otherwise generally do not fund or maintain libraries, even for basic educational materials. The law libraries are also often filled with irrelevant law texts (e.g. real estate and civil procedures) instead of what prisoners actually need information about: appeals, civil rights, etc.

There are strict requirements on what books can and cannot be received, which vary from prison to prison and even depending on which staff member is processing the shipments. There are a thousand different reasons prison staff can pull a book from a shipment. Individuals, unfamiliar with the complex restrictions, are often unsuccessful at sending books to incarcerated loved ones.

Prison staff often don’t like prison book programs, despite the fact that they reduce recidivism and keep prisoners occupied and out of trouble. Why? Because it makes more work for them in the mail room. Yes, really.

Immigrants are the fastest growing prison population, so we get lots of requests for books in Spanish or English learning materials. Unfortunately, these are less frequently donated, so our selection is slim.

We also get requests for books about sign language, usually from people with Deaf cellmates who have no other way to communicate.

Books about starting businesses, trades, and reintroduction are extremely common from those planning their lives after release. It’s extremely difficult for convicted felons to find work after release.

We also get many requests about psychology or self-help books. A large percentage of our incarcerated population suffer from some mental illness or have loved ones who do.

Many prisoners were not properly supported in their education. We receive letters from low-literacy people who have severe learning disabilities, whose letters are difficult to read because they never learned to write properly. Comic books/manga are common requests from low-literacy people because they can look at the pictures.

Prison book programs are usually not well funded and must ration how often incarcerated people can write us and how often they can request certain types of high-demand books. Volunteers frequently find there are no suitable books to fill a request and buy books with their own money to make sure someone gets what they’ve asked for. Cash donations to prison book programs will go to buying high-demand books such as dictionaries, GED prep, and other basic education texts.

See if you have a program like this in your area, and consider volunteering or donating books or money. There are over 2 million people incarcerated in the US, and giving them access to books is the very least we can do.

[monstrouslyobsessed]

—beastfolk’s masterlist

❝we are but servants to the beasts’  whims.❞

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what if the world as we know it was different? imagine the world where we the humans are pets to the animalistic humanoid species...the beastfolk.

what is beastfolk?

the beastfolk is a species spanning all that sported similar humanoid figures as we do—but with all the traits of animals.

alongside the humankind, the most common groups of the beastfolk are:

—fangedfolk, which consists of canines (dogs, wolves, foxes, etc) —whiskeredfolk, which contain the felines (tigers, lions, tomcats, etc) —clawedfolk, including bears, bear-like animals such as honey badger and koala bears (raccoons, weasels, and other similar animals fall under this category) —wingedfolk, typically birds that feed on meats and other animals with wings (birds of prey, large parrots with bone breaking beaks, bats, etc.) —featheredfolk, any bird that is considered as ‘harmless’ in nature (small-beaked parrots, sparrows, finches, etc.) —hoovedfolk, any animal with hooves (horses, pigs, bulls, etc.) —scaledfolk, any reptiles and amphibian (snakes, lizards, alligators, frogs, etc.) —toothedfolk, including rodents and lagomorphs (rats, rabbits, squirrels, etc. any animal with similar teeth) —treefolk, including all primates (gorillas, lemurs, monkeys, etc.) —and lastly, seafolk, comprising any aquatic animals and those with fins (sharks, dolphins, eels, octopuses, etc.)—is considered most dangerous and lesser understood.

understandably, this is a vast oversimplification from our reality.

when you have so many groups of beastfolk, even they would have preferred having common categories, particularly from having similar diets, lifestyles, common interests, cultures, to name few reasons. although politics too plays a part.

...supposed us living with the beastfolk is our reality, just how different things would be with them stronger than us—and having abilities to form relationships together? when they’re so, so dangerous to our well-being?

*name is still pending as some primates do not climb trees.

things to note;

starting from july 7, 2020, i will start marking my pieces (be it headcanon, full piece, musings, etc.) as what appx. era they takes place in. this is the simplified version of the timeline.

—pre-zoo, before the beastfolks were captive inside zoo institutes (literally concentration camps for them), severe segregation between the beastfolks and humans to the point that a high percentage of the population of each had never seen one other. you can think of this as...pre1900s to back to the known documented beginning thousands of years before. technology was not commonplace then but the ‘underground rings’ of various illegal activities were super common. —zoo, the era where the humans were actively capturing the beastfolks and placing them in the zoos. humans and beastfolks are finally gaining public awareness of one other. interspecies violence was becoming more common and romeo and juliet tales were not unheard of. technology started to grow. the prototype of the internet was created around this time. —zoo breakout, this was when the beastfolks started rising to power, broke out from their prisons, and started attacking and destroying all societies as the world once knew it. wars, countless deaths, and attacks occurred following the breakout. happening in nearly every major country. the beastfolks also started fighting among each other, with one side believing that humankind deserves to be annihilated and another trying to save humanity. this is also the era where violence, political tension, and fear were at their highest. internet expanded in a desperate attempt to connect and communicate with other human survivors. the chaos probably lasted for several decades, the destruction in some countries takes longer to end than others. —post zoo, the era where the beastfolks and humans are finally learning to live in the harmony together— at the cost of humans’ freedom (political freedom included). you can consider this as the modern era, imagine it as the 2000s to current. technology is what we know it currently, from flatscreen televisions, gaming consoles, virtual reality, etc. gaming, live streaming, and especially interspecies sex cultures are super prominent across the internet.

—any era, can be applied to any era regardless. can be on me talking about the beastfolk’s anatomy, culture, etc. for example, what hadn’t changed throughout the entire history and persists through all events that occurred to the modern era.

are you looking for my beastfolk character page...?

stories;;

—lady hyena;;ns;fw | her pretty pet

—lady hyena;;ns;fw | petplay

—jaguar tribe;;violence | ce’ce

—snake coworker / actor;;ns;fw | smile for the camera

—NEW!maned wolf fangedfolk / labyrinth game winner;;ns;fw | pursuit in the labyrinth

headcanons;;

—lady hyena | the zoo —lady hyena | domestic —lady hyena | expecting —lady hyena | again and again

—papa bull;;ns;fw | call me daddy —papa bull and duke;;ns;fw | like father-like son —papa bull and duke;;ns;fw | borrowing from daddy dearest —papa bull | and baby makes 3

—papa bull and duke;;ns;fw | anons headcanons (contains some world lores)

—dorothy the cow;;ns;fw | not so sweet  

—vice president lioness | sweetheart

—police dog;;ns;fw | do the crime do the time

—father fox | a family man —father fox;;ns;fw | waiting no longer —father fox;;ns;fw | first wife + what

—conservative lion | disgusted —NEW!conservative lion;;ns;fw | tyrannical

—mafia bears;;ns;fw | cucciolina pt1 —mafia bears;;ns;fw | cucciolina pt2

—rabbit hybrid;;ns;fw | long ears

—general;;ns;fw | police culture

—snake coworker / actor;;ns;fw | a thousand photographs of you

—musings; general;;ns;fw | entertain your patrons —musings; whiskeredfolks;;ns;fw | anatomy

—crocodile hybrid;;ns;fw | the swamp thing

—snake competitor;;ns;fw | the cruel game

—general;;ns;fw | the brothels

questions;;

—brief history | timeline | adoption | taboos | mental illnesses | others —which species... —body types | pregnancy instincts | internet —religions | jobs | celebrities | divorces | others —human flesh as food | laws | humanfuckers | others

—mental health | cheaters | diets | human as service pets | others

—human population | political leader being hypocrites | conservation views

—legal matters | media representations | why humans suffer so much prejudices | brief history

—languages | hybrid | breeding

—beauty standard | can i fool the beastfolks

—bugfolk? | if papa bull found out about duke | conservative lion is abusive pos

—yandere mbti personality |  most to least likely to be with human

—courting rituals | funny birds | auctions to the spectator sports

— NEW!cheating beastfolk spouse and cheating being taboo

((to be updated later!))

artworks;;

—mine | sketches of different characters i've written before

—mine | lady hyena sketch

—mine;ns;fw | lady hyena

—mine;ns;fw | papa bull

—mine | father fox

—mine;ns;fw | lady hyena and the lioness

—mine | papa bull and duke comparison with bonus dorothy and babies doodles

—mine | papa bull and duke redesigned

—mine | valerius

—mine | labyrinth game’s participants and the hostess

others;;

—ns;fw;;lady hyena fun fact

other masterlists;;

—main masterlist

—inktober

did i miss any link? please let me know and i’ll add it to the list!

updated;;oct 29, 2024, added a new link!

update nov. 27th, clarified the differences between wingedfolks and featheredfolks better.

explanation: wingedfolks are both winged animals that feeds on meats (bats, vultures, raptors, etc.) and those that can cause a lot of harms (ex. big beaks that can break bones) while featheredfolk are “harmless” in comparison. i sort of imagined there is an ongoing (political) debate on which category big-beaked parrots fall under but ultimately agreed to put them under the wingedfolk due to their capabilities to cause injures and bigger wingspans, which could be a boon to specific careers. ultimately though, parrots and other similar species would probably have their own preferences on which they’d rather be called.

❝ my heart is lost; the beasts have devoured it all.❞

[canmom]

content: on the demonic discourse about transmisogyny, rape, csa etc.

ok so for some reason trans men are hashing out a theory where there are two opposed forces, transmisogyny and transmisandry transandrophobia. whatever, they can believe what they will. but part of this is the claim that trans men are more vulnerable to sexual violence, and trans women are not. this is infuriating, because trans women are raped all the fucking time but this is so beside the fucking point it makes me want to scream. also i feel like i have deja vu for writing pretty much this exact post but whatever, let’s go through it again.

my best guess is that this claim most credibly originates in the 2015 US trans survey. this is not a bad source as they go, as the largest dataset on trans people available, although it is inevitably limited by factors like being a self-report survey spread online with some additional outreach efforts (noted by its authors as likely non-representative), and being limited to the United States population. anyway, the survey produced the following relevant data.

the claim probably arises from this graphic:

this should be compared to the rate for the population at large. however, this comparison becomes muddled because different studies use different definitions. for example, the 2015 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) gives these data:

with these data, and assuming equivalence between ‘contact sexual violence’ in the NISVS and ‘sexual assault’ in the USTS, you might conclude that trans women are sexually assaulted at a comparable rate to cis women, and trans men are sexually assaulted a fair bit more often. however, the authors of the USTS explicitly caution against this comparison:

additionally we can note other confounding factors and limited information. for example, there could be systematic biases in what each group is willing to report as sexual assault. it also makes no record of whether the assault happened pre- or post- transition. as far as recent sexual assaults, we get this much:

One in ten (10%) respondents in the survey were sexually assaulted in the past year.17,18 Respondents who were currently working in the underground economy (36%) were more than three times as likely to have been sexually assaulted in the past year.

which does not distinguish by casab, although trans women are disproportionately likely to be sex workers per elsewhere in the survey.

notably in other countries the data appear to be different. e.g. the 2017 crime survey for england and wales reports that over here,

20% of women and 4% of men have experienced some type of sexual assault since the age of 16, equivalent to 3.4 million female and 631,000 male victims

another problem confounding interpretation is that the groups we’re discussing - trans women, trans men - lump together a variety of different social positions. for example, the breakdown by race:

similar graphs are presented for trans men and cafab nonbinary people breaking it down by race, but the same is not done for trans women and camab nonbinary people.

moreover, scrolling through the USTS, we immediately find contradictory data. for example, sexual violence in schools skews totally the other way, hitting about one in five trans women (21%), roughly twice as often as trans men (9%) and nb people (10%) (the nb category does not distinguish by casab):

the data on prisons/police and restrooms does not break it down by casab, but in a few cases seems to provide data only for trans women:

note in the following this is not percentages of the whole survey, but specifically of respondents who had to deal with cops who thought or knew they were trans:

anyway I think trying to build a theory of a mechanism of oppression based on numbers from one survey of one country is insane and not in the way I like to uphold. there’s dozens of theorisations of ‘transmisogyny’, but a pokémon type system type theory of “forms of violence that trans women get/are Vulnerable To that nobody else does” is about the most shallow one possible.

we got to this point because a certain group of loosely affiliated (and often bitterly opposed) trans women, in large part as a defensive measure towards our vulnerable position in the thoroughly theoryfucked Queer Community, sifted from the muck of radfem ideology and social justice a compelling theorisation of one of the core mechanisms of gender: call it transmisogyny, anti-effeminacy, whatever, it is a central regulatory mechanism that upholds the whole machine of socialisation.

an old post of anemone @morphodyke-blog​ that I can’t find anymore put it well, before she was driven off of here:

patriarchal society needs its sacrificial hypersexualized disgusting living sex-objects, and transmisogyny is how it tries to turn a human into that. i keep thinking abt this 4chan thread i read ~2013 shortly after i came out, in which a chaser talked about how he specifically liked dating trans women because “they have such low self-esteem that you can make them do anything”. he went on to talk about how he specifically looks for trans women with “dead, lifeless eyes” (aka dissociated from ptsd) because “they’re like a doll you can mold into whatever you want, then discard when you’re done, and there will always be more desperate for love”

that’s what transmisogyny is: a systematic pattern of abuse applied to a small sacrificial portion of the population to create a class of women with no claim to community or personhood, who will never be defended or avenged, who can be safely sunk into the attrition of patriarchy’s darker desires to protect the cis women, who after all could one day be mothers or some other kind of person. we are the class sacrificed to men’s violence and cis women’s violence. the socially unimportant. the weird and ugly. the punching bag. the blowup doll that talks. the mad artist that produces something great and then must burn out cause who could support that eccentric through life? the activist who makes huge steps for the better but stumbles on a community that would rather rape and abandon her than admit that it needs her. the queen of the dance who gets beaten with sticks as she’s leaving it and no one helps.

you can argue that this analysis does not apply only to the category of “trans woman” as we name it today - at least, certainly does not require positive identification as such; however it is a central dynamic which hinges on the figure of the faggot/tranny/etc., and it comprises both the immediate experience of stochastic social violence of various kinds, and the psychic formation it inflicts on its victim. as such, it’s not really something that should be simply reduced to a probabilistic prediction about differential sexual assault statistics, because it’s as much a theory about the social meaning granted to those same sexual assaults. (a nuance which seems clear to me now but previously gave me a lot of pause when I first saw the graph above)

it would be a major misstep to say that just because over the years we’ve identified many ways in which trans men often quietly wield power over trans women in our social settings, that cafabs aren’t frequently sexually victimised by the society at large at a comparable rate. frankly, the position of trans men and cafab enbies or w/e is honestly quite undertheorised. but trans women shouldn’t be the ones to do it anyway, at least without being able to talk concretely to the cafab side in a way that’s actually productive. that this has so rarely happened comes from the extremely hostile situation of the time this was all developed, when this theory of transmisogyny, hypervisibility etc. was, over and over, attacked as like, a way to deny trans men their due in society or some shit. i know a couple of trans guys who’ve taken it more seriously, sometimes to the point of obsession, but for the most part it’s just been ‘problematic trans women rapists are coming in to say we aren’t oppressed and steal all our Resources’ which naturally provokes a rather defensive discourse on the tw side. walls go up, the nasty side comes out, the usual online discourse engine turns.

so gradually all that old, valuable theoretical ground has been walked back to turn it into a pissing contest between the woman tribe and the man tribe, each one with their own story, arguing about symbolic skirmishes dressed up in bureaucratic jargon like the fucking TME/TMA language and for the sake of this conflict, people will get out their hobnail boots and trample all over my friends’ traumatic experiences in the 2010s and it’s like, i’m so fucking sick of all this.

[thetalee]

If we start using convicts as guinea pigs, we'll start finding more reasons to convict people. Sure, maybe it'll start as just pedophiles and rapists, but they aren't exactly a large percentage of the inmate population, y'know? So, once people start becoming okay with the idea of some people being exprimented on, they'll widen the net. People convicted of murder, that's okay, too, right? But then they'll need more and more until it's people convicted for, I dunno. Drug charges, crossing the border illegally, having the audacity to be their actual gender, shit like that.

And then they'll start finding any reason to charge and convict people and send them to prison, because prisons are very much for profit, and there's gonna be a lot of money to be made with questionably ethical drug trials.

But oh, I forget that we're still hung up on thinking not everyone deserves dignity as a basic human right.

We could just do this kind of drug research using convicted pedophiles and rapists, and avoid using animals altogether 🤷

Would probably yield better results since we'd have data about humans and not mice and rabbits. But oh, I forget people are still hung up on pretending pedophiles and rapists deserve dignity

you are like 1 step away from being outright fascist, congrats